The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-16
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A GoosEBERRY BUSH is growing amazingly fit
teen feet from the ground in the forks of a large
elm tree at Newton, n. J. 1t is now fifteen feet
in height and supposed to be the product OF q
seed deposited there by birds.
DEEP WATER seamen are scarce in San Fran
cisco, and, on account, several loaded vessels
have been unable to leave port The Bulletin
! reports that offers of $40 a month, $50 bonus
and $40 advance find few sailors ready 10 &C
cept.
GEORGE DOWNING, OF Caldwell, Isabella
county, Mich, coughed up a shawlpin the Other
| day that had q head on it as big as a shoe but
! ton. 1t had been sticking in his crop for six
months, and even the Ann Arbor professors
had failed in trying to get it out.
AT their great Fort Worth mass meeting the
! Texas Prohibitionists exhibited a coffee pot
which held 400 gallons of steaming coffee, and a
tea pot filled with 800 gallons of ice cold tea.
| The thirsty men drank the contents of both
these big pots and called for more Fifteen
| thousand people we're present.
| A vERDANT young couple about II years of age
walked hand in hand into the county clerks of
| flee at ROlla, Mo, one day this week and told
| Asa Niles they wanted their ''picters took. "
Another man knocked his head against the tele
| phone and exclaimed: "How the - do you
tell the time by that ar clock?"
THE Rev. Dr. S. H. VIRGIN, in Fourth of
July address at West Chelmsford, said that re-
Gently in Washington he examined with micro
scopic scrutiny the original draft of the Declare
ton of Independence, and not a trace could be
found of the signatures of the men who put
forth that immortal instrument.
WHILE laborers in the employ of the Penn
Electric Light Company were excavating at Sec
ond and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, they dug
up an old wooden water pipe IN the shape of a
log with a hole bored through the centre which
had been laid by the city in the beginning of the
present century, when the water works were
first started. The log is of oak and well pre-
served.
JOSEPH SMITH, Of Chicago, dreamed the other
night that he fell from thrd-story window to
the pavement. He got up and looked out of the
window to see if the dream was true and he
found burglar coming up ladder to enter his
room and rob him. He gave the ladder push,
the burglar got hard fall, and Joseph returned
to bed to see if he couldn't astonish the country
some more
TRICHINA3 has been discovered in q human
body which was being prepared for anatomical
demonstration at the University of Camerino
me man had lived for many years in neigh
boring commune and died without the presence
OF the trichina being suspected. Peculiar in
terest attaches to the case for the reason that it
is said to be the first case of tiChnosis ever OBJ
served in Italy.
In Chicago guide book is published which
contains the names of most of the hotels in the
y
proprietors and chief officers. The names of
all the hotels except one are diStinctively
English or American and the chief cook assist
ant cook and pastry cook in each of these were
porn In France or Germany while these officials
IN the European hotel are natives of New York
Indiana and Illinois.
A SPRINGFIELD, o., mother checked her baby
carriage to a neighboring town where she was
about to visit and forgot to remove the child
from 1t, Just before the train started she miss
ed the baby, and after frantic and fruitless
search suddenly remembered where she had left
it. She got to the baggage car Just in time to
get the infant as it was being loaded on the
train in its carriage.
A STROKE of lightning which entered house
at Bridgewater, n j.. after smashing window
pane, ripped the mating from the floor cut
one of the castOrS from a bed-poSt, few into the
kitchen and threw a servant girl to the floor and
cat into a water pail, passed into an adjoining
room and tore the heel off the slipper of lady,
without harming her, burned the edges of
motto upon the wall, and then disappeared.
MAJ. WooDsoN, of Kansas City, received a
letter the other day from T. j. Pullman, of South
Riverside Cal, asking him to return a certain
sum OF money which the spirit of the bandit told
him was in the Majors possession taken from
the late Jesse James. In this letter Pullman de
scrfbes the apparition as a green-eyed monster
terrible but truthful The Major says that he
received two letters from this same individual
for sums of money taken by the late jesse
james.
A SUCCESSFUL BALLOON TRIP over the Irish Sea
has been made by the well,known English aero
naut, Mr. Simmons. He started from Preston
for short ascent, but a contrary breeze took
MS craft directly over the channel, somewhat to
the aeronaut's dismay, as he neither pro
visioned nor provided with apparatus for keep
ing atloat if the balloon suddenly descended in
mid channel. Happily the wind landed him
safely in Ireland at a farm at Ballyboden Rath-
farnham seven miles from Dublin after six and
0ne-quarter hours journey.
THERE was born in Foshen Ireland, on March
rs, 1888, a triplet of girls, Sbyl Sarah and
Susan Hurlburt, children of Gideon and Anna
Beach Hurlburt. For the great period of
broken. Sibyl dying first at that age in June
1870 In October of the next year Susan died at
the age of IS. Sarah lived to the age of 95 diving
on Jan. II, 1893 These sisters looked so much
alike-particularly Mrs. Grennell and Bushnell
that up to % or 80 years of age it was difficult
for the most intimate friends to tell them apart;
even then they would mistake one another
among themselves.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT III q ecent.interview re
garding the Far West said: "The women who
are managing cattle ranges for themselves came
from all social ranks and have drifted into the
business in all sorts of ways. Some of them are
Texans who were almost Graded with cattle
Others, especially in Dakota, come from New
England, New York or the States north of the
ing the wealthiest woman in Colorado is worth
SlO,0OO,OO0, and has made it on cattle Another
cattle queen who has amassed about 81 100000
IS Mrs: Rogers, the wife of minister in Cornus
Christi, Tex, who ministers to q widely seat
tered congregation. Mrs. Rogers began in a
small way. She is a fearless rider and goes
over her range frequently. Mrs. Massey, now a
widow, went to Colorado as agent for an insur-
ance company, married man with $50 900 head
of cattle, and it is said manages them quite as
well as he did. Mrs Easterly, of Nevada has
not large herd, but her stock is of fine grade
She is worth $500, 600"
"A strange scene" says the London Daily
Telegraph, occurred the other day at mat
inee performance, and one full of suggestion
Ayoung lady-Mss Houlston-by no means de-
void of talent, was ambitious enough to produce
an English version, by Mr.. Richard Davey, of
Victor HugO's Marian Deorme, played last in
Paris by Sarah Bernhardt, but always in recent
times identified with the best days of Favart
Miss Houlston, up to a certain point was
circumstances, when suddenly the an
dience perceived that the debutante was
bathed in tears and suffering from violent
nervous emotion. The play went on as
best it could and at the close the author with
generous chivalry, Ventured ON an explanation
Incredible rs 1t may appear he stated that dur
ing the performance, some spiteful person had
sent round 10 Miss Houlister letter-of course
an anonymous one-declaring that the actress
was making a sorry exhibition of herself and
was being heartily laughed at by every one In
front. The letter, obviously written before the
performance began, was deliberately intended